Horace Quotes about Gold

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When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold?

When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold?

Horace

Gold, Desire, Cups

Gold loves to make its way through guards, and breaks through barriers of stone more easily than the lightning's bolt.

Horace

Break Through, Gold, Stones

Gold will be slave or master.

Horace

Gold, Slave, Masters

Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.374, Delphi Classics

Silver is less valuable than gold, gold than virtue. [Lat., Vilius argentum est auro virtutibus aurum.]

Horace

Gold, Silver, Virtue

Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course; Through watchful guards its passage make, And loves through solid walls to break.

Horace

Wall, Powerful, Gold

Horace, Philip FRANCIS (D.D.) (1815). “The Works of Horace, Translated by Philip Francis”, p.103